Sugar Promote Sega Superstars

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Sugar Promote Sega Superstars

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Image The names Jonumu, Sujin, Ayumi, and Hezun might be completely meaningless to people in the West, but in their native South Korea they are instantly recognized as the stars of pop band Sugar, who have now been chosen by Sega Japan to promote forthcoming Eye Toy game, Sega Superstars.

According to Watch Impress, the band will be appearing in a TV commercial for the game. Other promotional activities are also planned, but the exact details of these are unclear. The girls are no strangers to Sega gaming as the band was recently used to advertise competitions in Sega’s Japanese arcade centres.

Sega Superstars will launch in Japanese stores on November 11th for 7, 329 yen with an Eye Toy Camera or for 4,410 yen without. The game will be one player only, but will feature 12 mini-games.

Sega Europe recently sent a preview copy to several UK game magazines, many of which have printed pictures that confirm the presence of Super Sonic in the Sonic game (unfortunately, these pictures do not appear to be available online). According to SoE, the game will be available in Europe on the 31st of December. Sega America has the game set for an autumn release.

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^ From left to right Sujin, Hesun, Jonumu and Ayumi

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^ Sugar’s first single was released in March 2003

A full profile of the band can be found at Sega.co.jp.

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Cute Japanese girls seem to love Sega.

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Or the other way around :razz:

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Oh gross. They're the asian version of Avril Lavigne.

Only there's FOUR of them.

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At least they're not four AMERICAN Avril Lavignes.

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Crazy Penguin wrote:Cute Japanese girls seem to love Sega.
I thought they were Korean since the news stated they were natives of South Korea.

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Haha.

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They are Korean, but they were raised in Japan.

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Like how Tarzan was raised by apes? Or Mowgli was raised by wolves?

Or Leonard was raised by mollusks?

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I thought Mowgli was raised by that bear.

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Only for a couple of weeks. The rest of the time he spent running around naked with a pack of wolves.

I should be ashamed that I know the detailed parental history of a fictional character decades old, shouldn't I?

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Ngangbius wrote:
Crazy Penguin wrote:Cute Japanese girls seem to love Sega.
I thought they were Korean since the news stated they were natives of South Korea.
But Smiley used the Japanese flag icon. The flags do not lie.

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But I thought they would be 'imports' just like Jim Carrey and Celine Dion are Canadian imports to the U.S.

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How do you know about these new images of SEGA Superstar in the UK? Which magazine?

Scan! Scan!

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Rlan wrote:How do you know about these new images of SEGA Superstar in the UK? Which magazine?

Scan! Scan!
According to Sega Europe's customer services the images have appeared in a variety of UK magazines. I know CVG definitely printed them (together with some images showing debug menus), but I'm not sure if the particular issue is on sale any more (I don't have a copy to scan).

UK TV show Gamezville used the Sonic game for one of its 'Face Off' tournaments, and one of the contestants actually succeeded in collecting all 7 Emeralds, turning into Super Sonic. Unfortunately, by the time I found out about the show, I was unable to capture it.

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Being korean, I'll say one thing, I KNOW Ayumi is a japanese name. I'm trying to make out the other three. It is possible they're a mix of korean and japanese girls, it has happen before. I should probably ask my sister, she knows a lot more about korean bands then I do.

EDIT: Got back from my sis and she informed me that it's an ALL korean band. Ayumi, from what she told me, is korean, but raised most of her life in Japan, probably the reason why she has a japanese names. The other three seem to have korean names (the sound like it to me).
~Neo

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